Jonathan Zimmerman

This year, eight states have instituted laws or rules to limit phone use in public schools. The result: happier, more engaged students. So why aren’t universities taking a cue from our schools?

The remarks — from someone who already tried to overturn a voting result he didn't like — seemed like a threat to end elections altogether. Here's what we need to do instead.

When is a student’s online activity so disruptive — or so threatening — that a school should punish it? That’s the big question. And we should be asking our students to help answer it.

I understand why people want to demolish the locations of the shootings: They are a reminder of the unspeakable horror of gun violence. But that's exactly why we should retain them.

We’d call it the Education Encampment. It's purpose? To discuss the Middle East conflict and the broader role of the United States in world affairs.

The biggest increases in sports betting have been among young, college-educated men. Clearly, higher education is being counted upon to supply the next generation of gamblers.

The resounding suspicion, equivocation, and outright denial that followed reports of rapes by Hamas fighters during the Oct. 7 attack on Israel ignores the suffering and trauma of their victims.

To her critics on the right, Shafik enabled antisemitism. Her left-leaning foes said she was an apologist for the war in Gaza and an enemy of free speech. She couldn't go on like that.

President Biden deserves enormous praise for placing the fate of our country ahead of his own interests. When making a vice presidential pick, the Democrats should put aside partisanship, too.

Millions of Americans now believe that their political opponents are forces of evil, bent on destroying the nation. We can’t go on like that.

There were tsks all around when the 45th president said, without evidence, that the verdict in his trial was fixed. In reality, many of us have engaged in the same kind of thinking.

While protests of the Vietnam era were a “contest of ideas,” maintaining a dialogue across differences has been framed as “unsafe” now.

When the American Booksellers Association issued an apology about a book that decried the rise of gender surgeries, it leaned into the same arguments conservatives have used to ban certain titles.

Biden will use his State of the Union address to dispel concerns about his age and memory. But people aren't being fair to Biden — more ignorant presidents have made worse gaffes with less outcry.

Besides the fraught political climate — which can stifle classroom debate — standardized tests make it harder for teachers to deliver the type of deep, open-ended instruction Walz provided.

Donald Trump said a higher power saved him from a would-be assassin's bullets. Joe Biden invoked the same as he fought to stay in the presidential race. But how can we be sure God is on any one side?

Supporters of a Louisiana law that requires schools to display the Ten Commandments argue they were part of public education for centuries. But saying so would actually break the ninth one.

Instead of encouraging critical thinking, some want to impose their views on their students. That’s called indoctrination, and — like censorship — it’s anathema to democratic education.

After ordering the removal last year of two student newspaper articles on the Israel-Hamas War, school officials are continuing to censor meaningful expression about the conflict.

Republicans are suggesting that Adeel Mangi, a Muslim judicial candidate, is soft on terrorism. Bias is at the heart of the claims. But no one in the GOP is brave enough to call his critics out.